How covid-19 has accelerated change in the world of work I will remember 2020 as the year I chaired an international conference from a small bacon factory in the English countryside. Had this gig come up in 2019 I would have been at a large conference centre in Athens. …

It was hot. So hot the stray dogs wagged their tails in slow motion as they sniffed out the shaded corners. So hot the festive Santas — octogenarians hired by the city to dress up in furry robes — sweated jovially through their straggly beards in the southern hemisphere yuletide…